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31.4

30-4

30-4. Excommunication is the excision of an offender from the communion of the Church. This censure is to be inflicted only on account of gross crime or heresy …

37.2

36-2

36-2. Church censures and the modes of administering them should be suited to the nature of …

25.7

24-7

… accept his resignation and dissolve the official relationship which exists between him and the church. The ruling elder or deacon, though chargeable with neither heresy nor immorality, may become …

31.1

30-1

30-1. The censures, which may be inflicted by church courts, are admonition, suspension from the Sacraments, excommunication, …

13.5

12-5

12-5. The church Session is charged with maintaining the spiritual government of the church, for which purpose …

36.14

35-14

35-14. An officer or private member of the church refusing to testify may be censured for contumacy.

38.1

37-1

… have now fulfilled the time of your censure, we, of the __________________ Presbytery (or Church Session) do hereby, in the name and by the authority of the Lord Jesus …

38.9

37-9

37-9. In the case of the removal of censures from, or the restoration of, a minister, jurisdiction shall be as follows: a. If …

1.2

Preliminary Principles

II. PRELIMINARY PRINCIPLES The Presbyterian Church in America, in setting forth the form of government founded upon and agreeable to …

37.6

36-6

… brother, and of the decision to cut him off from the communion of the church. He shall then show from Matthew 18:15-18 and 1 Corinthians 5:1-5 the authority of …

46.8

46-8

… or depose him without excommunication, it shall assign him to membership in some particular church, subject to the approval of the Session of that church. Temporary statement adopted by …

38.6

37-6

… deposition, he cannot be allowed to resume the exercise of his office in the church without re-election by the people. The removal of deposition requires a three-fourths (3/4) vote …

35.8

34-8

… no case be restored until it shall appear that the general sentiment of the Church is strongly in his favor, and demands his restoration; and then only by the …

37.7

36-7

… ____________________, a teaching elder of this Presbytery (or ruling elder or deacon of this church), has been proved, by sufficient evidence to be guilty of the sin of ____________________, …

32.10

31-10

31-10. When a member of a church court is under process, all his official functions may be suspended at the court’s …

14.9

13-9

… receive, dismiss, ordain, install, remove and judge ministers; b. To review the records of church Sessions, redress whatever they may have done contrary to order and take effectual care …

39.2

38-2

… the ministry, or if he has satisfactory evidence of his inability to serve the Church with acceptance, may report these facts at a stated meeting of Presbytery. At the …

35.10

34-10

… shall appear that his neglect proceeds only from his lack of acceptance to the Church, Presbytery may, upon the same principle upon which it withdraws license from a licentiate …

38.5

37-5

… a teaching elder of this Presbytery (or a ruling elder or deacon of this church), have been deposed from your office, but have now manifested such repentance as satisfies …

20.1

19-1

… the Gospel, no man is permitted to preach in the pulpits of the Presbyterian Church in America on a regular basis without proper licensure from the Presbytery having jurisdiction …

12.2

11-2

11-2. The jurisdiction of Church courts is only ministerial and declarative, and relates to the doctrines and precepts of …

35.4

34-4

… guilt, he persists in his contumacy, he shall be deposed and excommunicated from the Church.

31.3

30-3

… no definite suspension from the Sacraments. Suspension from office is the exclusion of a church officer from his office. This may be definite or indefinite as to its duration. …

40.3

39-3

… religion are to be determined” (WCF 1.10), and that the Constitution of the Presbyterian Church in America is “subordinate to the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, the …

37.1

36-1

36-1. When any member or officer of the Church shall be found guilty of an offense the court shall proceed with all tenderness …